Custom Lightsaber Modelling

[Numeric II 0]

Hi all,

Ive been trying to troubleshoot modelling a lightsaber in kotor for a fair while now and I cant get the blade to be visible when in game. I have the model linked to all its parents and children in the correct order and the lightsaber itself appears in game, but the blade is invisible. I have tried linking and exporting with both the kotormax interface and the inbuilt 3dsmax interface to no avail. Needless to say im stumped. Ive attatched a screenshot of a standard lightsaber and my design (with blade problem &  no texture) in-game. Thanks in advance.

Using:

3dsmax 2019, kotormax v0.4.1, kotortool (most recent), MDLOps 1.0.0, kotor steam version

[DarthParametric 3,785]

4 hours ago, Numeric II said:

MDLOps 1.0.0

That's outdated. The current version of MDLOps is 1.0.2 and the most recent version of MDLEdit is 1.0.104b.

Attach your ASCII for someone to look at to diagnose your problem. The first suspect would be a lack of animations.

[Stormie97 253]

Pretty sure that’s a lack of animations, I had the same issue the first time I made a custom hilt.

Make sure to click on "Export model + anims" in 3DSMax/Gmax when exporting your model.

[Numeric II 0]

Ok ill give those ideas a go. Not sure if it was implied, but im very new to modelling etc so please excuse me if its an obvious issue. Thanks for your help😄 

Ascii is here aswell:

w_lghtsbr_002-kotormax.mdl.ascii

[DarthParametric 3,785]

Yes, your model doesn't have any animations. As @Stormie97 said, make sure you choose the appropriate export option in KMax.

[Numeric II 0]

Okay, that appear to have worked. The modelling tutorial i watched imported model only, not model+animations and i was exporting it as so. Thanks heaps for that! I spent more hours than I'd like to admit trying to figure that out.

[DarthParametric 3,785]

Be wary of old tutorials, especially for sabers. The old approach using MDLOps 0.5/0.7 and the Replacer function is no longer valid.